Ok, I'm becoming increasingly pissed off about this: every single damn browser is broken on OS X. Why can't it be like Windows for once?
Chrome: Youtube is either transparent and you can see the application window behind the browser where the video is supposed to be.. OR the video flashes black every 3 seconds. Adblock sucks. High CPU usage when many tabs open.
Firefox 3 & 4: Whole thing feels clunky. Scrolling constantly jerky and hangs. Beachballs. Slows computer a lot when multiple tabs open.
Safari: Flash plugin crashes. Beach balls. High disk activity. Poor battery life when using it. Opening multiple tabs slows down computer. Did I mention beachballs?
Opera: Just downloaded recently and seems good except I can't interact with Youtube videos! The video scrubber doesn't pop up when I hover my mouse, I can rarely click to play/pause, can't close the semi-transparent Google ads.
WTF is wrong with all the browsers on OS X. ******* man. Many problems seem flash related. I've have Flash 10.2 (FWIW) and turned off hardware acceleration like people are suggesting, but it doesn't help with anything. You can't argue Flash is prevalent on the web if not only for Youtube.
Even aside from Flash related problems, it seems every browser on OS X just isn't as stable as on a PC. Maybe it's just that I haven't spent too much time on a PC doing extensive browsing, but even when I was a PC user, I never remembered having so many problems!
Which browser does everyone use and does anyone have the same infuriating problems as me?!
Chrome: Youtube is either transparent and you can see the application window behind the browser where the video is supposed to be.. OR the video flashes black every 3 seconds. Adblock sucks. High CPU usage when many tabs open.
Firefox 3 & 4: Whole thing feels clunky. Scrolling constantly jerky and hangs. Beachballs. Slows computer a lot when multiple tabs open.
Safari: Flash plugin crashes. Beach balls. High disk activity. Poor battery life when using it. Opening multiple tabs slows down computer. Did I mention beachballs?
Opera: Just downloaded recently and seems good except I can't interact with Youtube videos! The video scrubber doesn't pop up when I hover my mouse, I can rarely click to play/pause, can't close the semi-transparent Google ads.
WTF is wrong with all the browsers on OS X. ******* man. Many problems seem flash related. I've have Flash 10.2 (FWIW) and turned off hardware acceleration like people are suggesting, but it doesn't help with anything. You can't argue Flash is prevalent on the web if not only for Youtube.
Even aside from Flash related problems, it seems every browser on OS X just isn't as stable as on a PC. Maybe it's just that I haven't spent too much time on a PC doing extensive browsing, but even when I was a PC user, I never remembered having so many problems!
Which browser does everyone use and does anyone have the same infuriating problems as me?!